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Wednesday, 21 October 2015

Family Band Album Launch in Leeds, November 1st

Family Band, a chord-less quartet led by bassist Tom Riviere and featuring Riley Stone-Lonergan, Kim Macari and Steve Hanley, will release their first album at a launch concert at Seven Jazz on Sunday November 1st.

The album features predominantly original material and will be available through Bandcamp on a Pay-What-You-Feel basis.

Tom says...In short, I want to stop thinking when I improvise. Sometimes when I’m
on stage I experience moments in which it is as if I’m an outside
observer listening to myself and the band play. This is a very
satisfying feeling – much more enjoyable than the analytical state of
mind I often fall into whilst performing – and I’d like to experience it
more often. To that end, it made sense to me to put together a project
loosely inspired by the aforementioned groups (Ornette Coleman and Coltrane) as the more open
structures that they often favour lend themselves to what it is that I
seek: music that I can feel – rather than think – my way through.